I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.